𝔽𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕤 𝕒 𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕥𝕠𝕠: 𝔸 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕤 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕘𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕

𝗗𝗮𝘆 : 𝟭 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘆

𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝟮 – 𝟴 𝗙𝗲𝗯) 

In India, the highly trained Hospitality industry sadly lacks knowledge and training when it comes to Banquet services and their understanding of what should be allowed and what shouldn’t. 

The higher the stars they have, the sad is their knowledge and awareness. 
As facilitators, many of us rely on walls to put up our charts and sticky walls and as we don’t use projectors or slides, we carry masking tapes (white paper tapes used by painters, carpenters etc.) that absolutely don’t damage the walls.

And yet the wastage of time to explain this to the banquet staff who object to putting up these charts on the wall. Requesting the Banquet Manager presence helps (an additional time-waster) but at its worst - the Manager rejects the idea stating some idiotic policy that doesn’t differentiate between masking-tape and double-sided bonding tapes. 
My question to them is - If you had made these halls for only weddings and drabby one-way meetings, please don’t sell it for trainings & facilitation!

So as I love to say, 𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘧𝘶 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘢𝘥’𝘴 , “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼𝗼”.

We started using the floor as a wall for placing charts and at times even pasting a sticky wall. And it works beautifully. Only caveat is if the participants are disadvantaged or face a challenge sitting on the floor or bending and pasting on the floor. 

First it was just a juggad… later realised that the top-down view when a participant is standing and looking at the floor-chart is an amazing perspective by itself. 

The first time I used it was in 1998 in a 3-star hotel in Delhi and now most of my workshops will have at least one method on the floor. Now I see many facilitators also using it as a design norm.

 Once I had faced a major irritation- a 5-Star Manager came running and didn’t allow any paper-tape on the floor – asked us to remove immediately. Bless this Banquet Manager! I never used this space again and requested many of my clients not to use them.

So, do you 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 the floor too? 
Comment on your experiences.